Following the announcement that Israel discovered massive gas deposits in the Leviathan and Tamar fields off its coastline, Lebanon declared the fields as being in its territory and warned Israel to leave the fields to Lebanon.

The official majority vote in favor of secession by 98 percent of the voters in Southern Sudan has caused Israeli officials and analysts to weigh the consequences in a new light, especially in regards to ties to the future state.

According to senior IDF, Mossad and Shin Bet officials, Israel did not anticipate the uprising in Egypt as former Mossad chief Meir Dagan and the new head of IDF Intelligence General Aviv Kochavi both said the Mubarak regime was stable. However, they exhorted the government not to intervene, but rather follow the situation closely.

There is evidence amounting that the man who is suspected of shooting Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the first Jewish congresswoman ever elected in Arizona, may have been motivated by anti-Semitism.

Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, chose December 24th, 2010 to release formally recognize a “free and independent” Palestinian within its 1967 borders state following suit with Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Uraguay. Now the UK is considering the possibility of making a similar diplomatic move.

The White House told press that the US will not condone Israel’s settlement activity on Wednesday; the same day that the US House of Representatives approved $200 million to help deploy Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.

Today, a quarter century ago, Jewish spy Jonathan Pollard was arrested and sent to an American prison. Prisoner number 09185-106 looks out from his cell towards the growing calls in Israel and the United States for his release, and says: “The letters that come to me from Israel are my oxygen. I imagine how it’ll be when my beloved wife runs into my open arms when I get to Ben Gurion airport.”

A 46 year old Jewish doctor from Paderborn, Germany abandoned a patient and refused to perform surgery on him after he saw a tattoo with the Nazi Party Symbol in the patient’s arm. The Jewish Chronicle, which exposed the affair, claims that when the 38 year old patient arrived for surgery, the doctor saw thet symbol on his arm, the same symbol that the Nazi Party adopted during World War II.